How to format your references using the Aquatic Living Resources citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aquatic Living Resources. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Skands P., 2014, Particle physics: The mass of a top. Nature 514, 174–176.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davis C.J., Johnson C.G., 2005, Lightning-induced intensification of the ionospheric sporadic E layer. Nature 435, 799–801.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun Q., Haynes K.F., Zhou X., 2013, Differential undertaking response of a lower termite to congeneric and conspecific corpses. Sci. Rep. 3, 1650.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Volkov I., Banavar J.R., Hubbell S.P., Maritan A., 2007, Patterns of relative species abundance in rainforests and coral reefs. Nature 450, 45–49.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Samonas M., 2015, Financial Forecasting, Analysis, and Modelling. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Qian H., 2011, Intelligent Surveillance Systems, Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering. Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Nikolova M., 2015, Energy Minimization Methods. In: Scherzer O. (Ed.), Handbook of Mathematical Methods in Imaging. New York, NY, Springer, pp. 157–204.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Aquatic Living Resources.

Blog post

Andrew D., 2015, How Much Would It Cost To Be Batman? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/cost-being-batman/ (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 1989, ADP Planning: SSA’s February 1989 Report on Computer Modernization Is Incomplete ( No. IMTEC-89-76). Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Prima M.B., 2012, Waiting for Lefty: Adversity and the American Dream (Doctoral dissertation). Long Beach, CA, California State University, Long Beach.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Greenhouse L., 2006, Case of the Dwindling Docket Mystifies the Supreme Court. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Skands 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Davis and Johnson 2005; Skands 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Davis and Johnson 2005)
Three or more authors: (Volkov et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aquatic Living Resources
Abbreviation	Aquat. Living Resour.
ISSN (print)	0990-7440
ISSN (online)	1765-2952
Scope	Aquatic Science